Cycle Path Along Mostyn Docks – Flint Castle loop from Flint

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Cycle Path Along Mostyn Docks – Flint Castle loop from Flint

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Cycle Path Along Mostyn Docks – Flint Castle loop from Flint

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27.7km

110m

Cycling

Easy bike ride. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: October 8, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 27.0 km for 247 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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9.31 km

Funship Market (Duke of Lancaster)

Highlight • Structure

The Funship Market is a Sunday Market that takes its name from the Duke of Lancaster so-called 'Funship', that now lies abandoned in its dock nearby. The market is open on Sundays and is alongside the A548 coast road.

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9.35 km

TSS Duke of Lancaster

Highlight • Structure

TSS Duke of Lancaster is a former railway steamer passenger ship that operated in Europe from 1956 to 1979, and is beached near Mostyn Docks, on the River Dee, in north Wales

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12.6 km

Mostyn Railway Station

Highlight • Monument

"Mostyn Railway Station is situated on the A548. It was opened on 1 May 1848 as part of the Chester and Holyhead Railway (now the North Wales Coast Line). On 1 January 1859 ownership of the line and station passed into the hands of the London and North Western Railway and in 1923 it became part of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) until nationalisation in 1948 and the creation of British Railways (London Midland Region), from 1965 rebranded British Rail.
There were originally two platforms to serve the two lines running through the station. In the late 19th century the number of lines were doubled. One platform was changed to an island platform and a further platform constructed, giving a total of four. A footbridge over the lines linked them together. The main station building was a brick built in Itiianate style and was supplemented by a goods shed in the sidings which served the quay. A signal box, built in 1902, was located at the south-east end of the site and is now Grade II Listed Building. Steady decline in the mid-20th century meant that it closed for goods services on 4 May 1964 and the station closed fully on 14 February 1966. In the 1980s the line reverted to double track and in the 1990s the footbridge was removed. The station building itself is still in existence as a private dwelling and the goods shed can still be seen."

Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostyn_railway_station

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13.0 km

Cycle Path Along Mostyn Docks

Highlight • Cycleway

Good little cut through with lots of wildlife.

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22.1 km

Bagillt Dragon Sculpture and View of the Welsh & Wirral Coast

Highlight • Monument

A dragon statue, situated on top of a hill that gives a very nice, broad view of the Welsh & Wirral coast.

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27.2 km

Flint Castle

Highlight • Historical Site

The earliest and most unusual of Wales’ English-built castles

Fans of military architecture make a bee-line for Flint. The first castle to be founded as part Edward I’s campaign against Llywelyn ap Gruffydd (Llywelyn the Last) in north Wales, it boasts a unique and unusually sophisticated design.

Started in 1277 and largely completed by 1284, the castle is dominated by the great tower (or donjon) at its south-east corner. Surrounded by its own moat and accessed via a drawbridge, it’s essentially a castle within a castle. Built with exceptionally thick walls and equipped with all the facilities required to withstand a siege, it was presumably intended to be a final refuge in the event of an attack.

Flint Castle is also famous as the location of a fateful meeting in 1399 between Richard II and his rival to the crown Henry Bolingbroke (later Henry IV), an event immortalised in Shakespeare’s Richard II.

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27.7 km

End point

Train Station

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